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Curtis E. Sahakian
4843 Howard Street
Skokie, Illinois 60077
(708) 676-2774
EDUCATION
Legal Education
The John Marshall Law School
J.D. 1980 Law Review, Top
6% of class
Undergraduate Education
University of Wisconsin -
Economics
Madison Area Technical College
- Data Processing
BUSINESS
AND LEGAL EXPERIENCE
March 1986 to
Present
General Counsel with Resource Information Management Systems, Inc.
Resource Information
Management Systems, Inc. is a leading vendor of health claims processing
systems to the Health Care and Insurance Industries and is a partially
owned subsidiary of The Travelers Insurance Company. 7% of all U.S.
Health Claims and Encounters are processed on RIMS systems.
Advise Board
of Directors and senior executives on matters of legal consequence
to the company. Independently formulate and manage legal policies,
define and carry out assignments. Personally represent the company
in vigorously pressed disputes involving complex transactions and
difficult issues. These disputes often require a high order of original
and creative endeavor. Select, direct, and coordinate outside counsel.
Personally confer and negotiate with top officers and attorneys of
other organizations. Personally handle routine and non-routine matters
including lines of credit and financings of $2,000,000 to $5,000,000.
Handle legal
affairs for 10 subsidiaries and affiliates including a multi-million
dollar leasing subsidiary; draft, prepare and administer routine and
non-routine agreements (ranging from less than $100,000 to $4+ Million
each). Supervise litigation; intimately involved in the day to day
supervision of major litigation; manage troubled customer and distributor
situations.
Personally handle
a wide variety of transactions and matters; distributor and dealer
agreements; technology development contracts; employment matters;
joint ventures; equity and asset based financings; debt collections;
UCC Article 9 matters; proprietary rights program; software protection
strategies; trademark policies and filings; copyright matters; trade
secret matters; risk control; general manager of leasing subsidiary;
shareholder and buy-sell agreements; employment agreements; incorporations,
non-compete agreements; non-disclosure agreements; private placements
of stock; stock purchase agreements; internal investigations; and
a broad range of varied corporate legal matters.
June 1982 to
March 1986
Independent Practitioner.
Practice was
concentrated in the handling of corporate and computer-law matters
for high-tech companies. Typical matters handled:
Commercial
and shareholder disputes; buy-sell agreements; copyright work; distributor
and dealer agreements; employment agreements: incorporations; license
agreements; miscellaneous corporate work; non-compete agreements;
nondisclosure agreements; private placements; shareholder agreements;
software protection strategies; stock purchase agreements; technology
development contracts; and trade secrets.
December 1982
to April 1984
Vice President of Business Development and General Counsel of Dynaquest
Corporation.
Devoted majority
of time to Dynaquest Corporation, a computer services company. Managed
all legal affairs. Negotiated and structured two rounds of venture
financing including a $1 million dollar R&D limited partnership. Was
directly involved in developing and negotiating relationships with
prospective national accounts, investors and strategic partners. During
this period Dynaquest grew from 5 employees to 30 employees.
January 1981
to June 1982
Associate Attorney with Myer, New, Berlin & Braude.
Practiced law
with a law firm servicing a mix of closely held companies. Matters
handled were similar to that handled in my subsequent independent
practice except that a substantial portion of my time here was spent
litigating disputes.
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Teaching Activities
Have been active
in providing continuing legal education to the Bar on matters relating
to high-tech industry.
Lectured at "Contracting
for Computers and Related products and Services" a two day course
given by IICLE (the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education,
a nonprofit bar supported organization). Was contributing author to
the related course book. Organized, as part of a committee, a subsequent
IICLE course titled "Marketing and Protecting Rights in Computer Software."
This Course was later promoted nationally by the ABA. Have chaired,
organized, spoken at and/or authored materials for a number of Bar
sponsored courses and seminars.
Professional
Membership
American, Illinois,
and Chicago Bar Associations
Past Chair of both the CBA Computer Law Committee
and the
CBA High-Tech Finance Sub-Committee
CONTINUING
LEGAL EDUCATION
Post-Graduate Education
has included the following (primarily from IICLE and the Practicing
Law Institute):
Accounting for
Attorneys; Advanced Bankruptcy Practice Seminar; Advanced Strategies
in Employment Law; Antitrust Counseling and Litigation; Art Law; Blue
Sky Laws, State Regulation of Securities; Advanced Issues and Case
Studies in Equipment Leasing; Advanced Strategies in Employment Law;
ALI/ABA Postgraduate Course in Federal Securities Law; Annual Trademark/Trade
Secret Litigation Institute; Basic UCC Skills; Business Insurance
Law and Litigation; Chancery Practice Including Restrictive Covenants;
Civil RICO 1990; Claims Against Defunct Businesses; Closely Held Corporations
- Advanced Concepts; Computer Law - Current Trends and Developments;
Construction Contracts; Corporate Restructurings; Creative Corporate
Financing Techniques; Corporate Partnering - Advantages for Emerging
and Established Companies; Creditor's Rights; Current Developments
in Copyright Law; Current Problems in Civil Practice; Dealing with
the Reorganizing Debtor; Delaware Law for Corporate Lawyers; Directors
and Officers Liability; Distribution and Marketing 1990; Doing Business
with Troubled Companies 1991; Executive Compensation; Foreign Investment
in the United States; Franchising - Business Strategies and Legal
Compliance; Fraudulent Conveyances, Preferences, and Valuations; Hazardous
Waste Litigation; How to Prepare an Initial Public Offering; Illinois
Civil Discovery Practice; Insurance, Excess, and Reinsurance Coverage
Disputes; Insurance & Reinsurance Coverage Disputes; Interest Rate
and Currency Swaps; International Commercial Agreements 1992; Introduction
to Environmental Law; Lender Liability Litigation - Recent Developments;
Lending Transactions and the Bankruptcy Act; Letters of Credit and
Banker's Acceptances; Leveraged Acquisitions and Buyouts; Libel Litigation;
Litigating Copyright, Trademark, and Unfair Competition Cases; Managing
a Corporation's Law Department; Mergers and Acquisitions in the 1980s;
Negotiated Business Acquisitions; Officers and Directors' Liability;
Opinion Letters of Counsel; Protecting the Corporate Parent (avoiding
liability for the acts of the corporate subsidiary); Recent Developments
in Equipment Leasing; Responsibility of the Corporate Parent for the
Activities of the Subsidiary 1990; SEC Section 16 Rules; Securities
Filings Under the 1933 and 1934 Acts; The Secured Creditor in Court;
Securities Arbitration; Securities Litigation 1989; Understanding
Budgeting and Finance; 24th Annual Corporate Counsel Institute; 31st
Annual Antitrust Institute.
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